AUDIENCES

Vatican City, 25 April 2014 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received in audience:

- Thirteen prelates of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference:

- Bishop Xolelo Thaddeus Kumalo of Eshowe;

- Bishop Zolile Peter Mpambani of Kokstad;

- Bishop Pius Mlungisi Dlungwane of Mariannhill;

- Bishop Stanisław Jan Dziuba of Umzimkulu;

- Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale of Johannesburg, apostolic administrator “Sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis” of Klerksdorp;

- Bishop Jose Luis Gerardo Ponce de Leon of Manzini, Swaziland, apostolic administrator “Sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis” of the apostolic vicariate of Ingwavuma;

- Bishop Giuseppe Sandri of Witbank;

- Archbishop William Matthew Slattery of Pretoria, military ordinary for South Africa;

- Bishop Valentine Tsama Seane of Gaborone, Botswana;

- Bishop Jeremiah Madimetja Masela of Polokwane;

- Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg;

- Bishop Joao Noe Rodrigues of Tzaneen;

- Bishop Frank Atese Nubuasah of Pauzera, apostolic vicar of Francistown, Botswana.

- Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

- Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.